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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, May 14, 2017 11:59 PM UTC:

Actually, Carlos, you disagree with me, since you just described what I do not want. I consider it important to settle on what the games will be before anyone signs up for the tournament. I had started writing an addendum on why I oppose the potluck method, but I assumed it would already be clear from what I already wrote that I did not intend any such thing. When I said that the list of games should be prepared before anyone signs up for the tournament, I understood this to preclude the potluck method you describe. I favor two steps. One is to get a general consensus on which games should be played, and the other is to decide on the games to be played BEFORE anyone signs up for the tournament. The potluck method reverses this order. While I favor making signing up for the tournament the last step in the process, your potluck method would make it the first step in the process. And while I favor doing game selection first, the potluck method would do it last. Besides this, the potluck method does not build any consensus on which games will be played. Instead, it asks people to join without any foreknowledge of the games to be played and runs the risk of foisting undesired games on people who have already signed up for it.


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